Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to sit on the high court and the first justice in modern times to become a cultural sensation, died Friday of cancer after more than a quarter century on the court.
She died at her home in Washington, D.C., surrounded by family after battling metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Justice Ginsburg was 87 years old.
“Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic nature,” said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. “We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague.”
The Brooklyn, New York-born jurist’s fans and foes took to calling her the “Notorious RBG” because of her unabashedly liberal crusades from the bench and her tendency to insert herself into partisan politics in interviews and speeches beyond the walls of the Supreme Court…
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